Ja­maican en­ter­tain­er, Vy­bz Kar­tel, whose re­al name is Adi­jah Palmer has been set free af­ter Ja­maica's Court of Ap­peal ruled against retry­ing him and his co-ac­cused for the mur­der of Clive “Lizard” Williams.

The de­ci­sion was made by a three-judge pan­el, in­clud­ing Jus­tices Mar­va Mc­Don­ald-Bish­op, Paulette Williams and David Fras­er.

Palmer, Shawn ‘Shawn Storm’ Camp­bell, Kahi­ra Jones and An­dre St John were con­vict­ed of the Sep­tem­ber 2011 mur­der of Williams.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing the quar­tet made an ap­peal to the lo­cal Court of Ap­peal in 2020, but their con­vic­tions were up­held.

Their ap­peal was then tak­en to the Privy Coun­cil, and on March 14, 2024, their mur­der con­vic­tions were over­turned on the grounds of ju­ror mis­con­duct.

The Privy Coun­cil al­so re­mit­ted the case back to the Ja­maica Court of Ap­peal to de­cide whether there should be a re­tri­al.